A total of 100 businesses in Doral will directly benefit upon the agreement signed by the City of Doral and the HUBB organization, which will offer free consultancy to these companies, as well as training on technology and collaboration on implementing innovative proyects aimed towards the smart development of our city.

As stated by Manuel Pila, in charge of the Economic Developer of the City of Doral, who explaind that Doral has an important amount of logistics and international trade businesses that boost the economy of Miami-Dade County, hence the importance of supporting their progress and modernization.

“Likewise”, explained Pila, “Doral has many small and mid-sized businesses, some of them family owned, that need advice, specially regarding the use of new technology and how, the aplication of such may contribute to their growth, modernization of their operations, generate higher profits and create new jobs.”.

Pila added that this agreement seeks the creation of an innovation center, a program that has been under work in conjunction with the Miami-Dade County, he also pointed out that HUBB was the consulting firm selected due to its experience both in the commercial and technological areas, that will guarantee the succesful modernization of Doral’s current industry, and greater opportunities for new businesses.

DEVELOPMENT, MODERNIZATION AND TECHNOLOGY

Manuel Pila claims that the real objective of HUBB is to support the growth of Doral’s businesses, motivating lasting solutions that allow a high performance development and the consolidation of worlwide competitive companies, that bring financial benefits to the city, the county and the State of Florida.

HUBB will achieve this through advice, business plan designs, financial analysis, support on decision making, training on trade and sales programs, focus on marketing, stimulation of business practices and facilitating an easy access to technology, among other matters.

Activities will focus on three main areas: increase the scope of the business in order to facilitate its nation and world wide presence, achieve a clear vision of it’s business model to generate sustentability and profits, and consolidate the company as one that is focused on client’s needs.

Through this proposal to the City of Doral, HUBB offers assesment consultations for a total of 100 businesses, and carrying out events to present their services to the business community of Doral. This assesment includes areas such as: leadership, strategy, planning, client support, follow-up and analysis, work force process, operations and results.

SMART CITY

Training for the implementation of technology that benefits businesses is one of the main areas of services that HUBB offers our city, we are expecting to have technological community events, known as “Hackathons” that will stimulate the modernization of the city and its businesses.

“This technological support includes the consolidation of the “Smart City” program, which seeks the development of ideas, including those of local residents with innovative proyects, who may collaborate to solve the city’s problems and that would implement new proposals to continue the modernization and update of Doral”, claimed Pila.

“We want to give people with new concepts the opportunity to participate in this proyect, as many of these ideas are great and completly innovative. The way this city will progress is through the joint efforts of all of its residents and businesspeople”, he added.

The financial developer of the City of Doral explained how important it is to know what the people with new ideas favoring development think, so we may adequately guide them and channel those ideas. “It is not only about evaluating proposals that allow us to solve the current problems, it is also about applying modern and efficient projects that transform us in a model city that may serve as example for many others”.